Chile's Boric suffers first Cabinet resignation


FILE PHOTO: Chile's President Gabriel Boric speaks after a bilateral meeting with Colombia's President Gustavo Petro (not pictured) at the Casa de Narino, in Bogota, Colombia, August 8, 2022. REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez

SANTIAGO - Chilean President Gabriel Boric said on Thursday that he had accepted the resignation of his Cabinet's social development minister, the first shakeup of his young administration which began in March.

Social Development Minister Jeanette Vega resigned following a news report that one of her advisers had contacted a radical Mapuche indigenous leader who had called for an armed struggled against the state and who was arrested on Wednesday.

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